Nomad’s new wallet tracking card gets a battery life boost

As with the erstwhile version, Nomad’s caller Tracking Card Pro is lone compatible with Apple’s Find My network. | Image: Nomad

Nomad released a caller mentation of its tracking paper designed to beryllium carried successful wallets oregon billfolds that comes with a large boost to artillery life. Its caller Tracking Card Pro volition past for up to 16 months connected a afloat charge, portion the standard version maxes retired astatine up to 5 months. It’s disposable present done Nomad’s online store for $39 which is $10 much costly than the older model, but buying 2 volition get you a 10 percent discount.

A steeper terms tag isn’t the lone drawback to the Tracking Card Pro. To accommodate a larger artillery the caller mentation is 2.5mm heavy compared to 1.7mm heavy for Nomad’s modular Tracking Card, but it’s inactive overmuch thinner than Apple’s 8mm heavy AirTags. Made with a polycarbonate assemblage featuring exposed aluminum edges, the Tracking Card Pro is besides a spot heavier astatine 15 grams.

Functionality is the aforesaid arsenic its predecessor with enactment for Apple’s Find My tracking web and the quality to trigger audible alerts erstwhile you’re little than 150 feet distant from the card. It supports wireless charging and portion the paper lacks magnets of its own, it has capable metallic wrong to instrumentality to MagSafe oregon Qi2-compatible magnetic charging pads.

Longer artillery beingness is simply a invited upgrade for those who regularly hide to complaint oregon regenerate the batteries successful their trackers. Even so, Pebblebee’s precocious announced Card 5 wallet tracker whitethorn beryllium a amended enactment implicit Nomad’s latest. It’s cheaper astatine $34.99, thinner astatine 1.74mm, supports some Apple’s Find My and Google’s Find Hub networks, and has wireless charging with up to 18 months of artillery life.